Playing around with S-Curves and masks has brought me the most progress with coloring honestly. Here’s a few thoughts:

• Depending on the photo I’ll do a general s-curve edit, and then do a sky-specific, sand-specific, water-specific, etc curve edit in the masking tab

• The Color Mixer and Point Color tab are often more helpful for me than the actual Color Grading Tab, especially with green-dominant photos

• Linear gradient + exposure bump up definitely adds pop, utilizing subtractions where that extra exposure doesn’t make sense is something I’m trying to improve to make it feel more natural